Peak
6
Weeks
32
Score
5,275
Chart Year
2015
Scores & Rankings
Chart Performance
Peak Position6
Peak DateMar 21, 2015
Weeks at Peak1
Weeks Charted32
Weeks in Top 4022
Weeks in Top 109
Weeks at #20
Weeks at #10
Scoring
Summary Calc2,225
Weekly Calc3,050
Total Score5,275
Rankings
Year Ranking#26
Decade Ranking#290
Billboard Year#30
Top 5000#969
Details
- Album
- 1989
- Label
- Big Machine Records
- Genre
- Synthpop
- Media Type
- AC
- Composer(s)
- Taylor Swift;Max MartinShellback;Ali Payami
- Entered Chart
- Nov 15, 2014
- Peak Date
- Mar 21, 2015
- Released
- February 9, 2015
- Recorded
- MXM, StockholmConway Recording, Los Angeles
- Catalog #
- Big Machine Digital
Music Video
American filmmaker Kyle Newman directed the music video for "Style", which was shot in Los Angeles and completed within four days in summer 2014.Before its release, Swift posted several teaser images and short clips from the video on her social media accounts. She planned to premiere the video on Good Morning America on the morning of February 13, 2015, but Canadian music channel Much released it at midnight. Swift uploaded the video to her Vevo account on the same day. In the video, English actor Dominic Sherwood plays Swift's love interest. Swift contacted him by text message roughly a month before the shooting; the two had known of each other through mutual friends. By the time they worked on the video, Sherwood had finished the film Take Down, which was later renamed Billionaire Ransom (released in 2016). The video does not have a clear narrative but features disparate flashbacks of Swift and her love interest by the seashore, in the woods, and on car rides. At some points, the broken mirror pieces, through which Swift and her lover see each other, symbolize memories of a past relationship that linger on. Media publications noted and praised the video's darker, more abstract and sensual atmosphere compared to the videos for "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space".Vox's Kelsey McKinney opined that Swift embraced her sexuality using "sensual imagery" of her touching herself, which showcased her maturity as an artist. Emilee Lindner of MTV called the video "mature, tasteful, and ... sexy". Spence Kornhaber from The Atlantic, meanwhile, remarked that Swift expressed her sexuality in a more conservative manner compared to her contemporaries that distinguished her from "the pop obsession with women's bodies." InStyle writer Hayley Spencer deemed it "Swift's most cinematic video to date." Several images in the video featuring silhouettes of Swift's head overlaid by other scenes of her lover, the forests, smoking clouds, or thunder storms, were compared to the opening credits of the crime drama series True Detective. The Wall Street Journal's Michael Driscoll, meanwhile, compared the video's atmosphere to that of 1980s pop videos, specifically Chris Isaak's 1989 single "Wicked Game". Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times labelled the visual "a creepy homage" to David Lynch's mystery film Mulholland Drive (2001).
Notes
This song about a relationship with a guy who has "slicked-back hair" appears to be Taylor looking back at her time with Harry Styles. The clue is not only in the title but also Harry used to rock a slicked-back hair style. Taylor wrote the song with Swedish hitmaker Max Martin (Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne), his protégé Johan Shellback and Ali Payami (who co-penned one of Lea Michele's Louder tracks, "Thousand Needles"). The song was first previewed when a portion of it was played during a Target commercial. New Zealand teenage singer-songwriter Lorde was one of the first people that heard 1989. This was her favorite song on the album. She said: "I first heard 'Style' driving down the Pacific coast highway and it was EVERYTHING. I chair-danced so hard you have no idea." Swift applied to trademark the song's phrase "we never go out of style" along with others from 1989 like "this sick beat" from "Shake It Off." The trademark means that people are prohibited from using these lyrics on items such as stationery, stickers, removable tattoos, T-shirts and bags in the US. The dreamy video was shot around Los Angeles by film director and screenwriter Kyle Newman (Fanboys, The Hollow). The clip finds Swift reflecting on a romance - her boyfriend is played by English actor and model Dominic Sherwood, whom you might recognize from his role as Christian Ozera in the movie Vampire Academy. This is one of several songs Taylor Swift wrote about Harry Styles - "Out Of The Woods" and "All You Had To Do Was Stay" are also widely believed to be about the One Directioner. Asked by Howard Stern if his ex using him as song material upsets him, Styles replied: "I think about what it means to me to write a song about somebody else, and for someone else to do that, I think it's flattering. Even if the song isn't that flattering, you still spend time on it, and ultimately, using Taylor as an example, she's a great songwriter."
Midnight You come and pick me up, no headlights Long drive Could end in burning flames or paradise Fade into view, oh It's been a while since I have even heard from you (heard from you) And I should just tell you to leave 'cause I Know exactly where it leads, but I Watch us go 'round and 'round each time You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye And I got that red lip classic thing that you like And when we go crashing down, we come back every time 'Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style You got that long hair, slicked back, white T-shirt And I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt And when we go crashing down, we come back every time 'Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style So it goes He can't keep his wild eyes on the road, mm Takes me home The lights are off, he's taking off his coat, mm, yeah I say, "I heard, oh That you've been out and about with some other girl, some other girl" He says, "What you heard is true, but I Can't stop thinkin' 'bout you and I" I said, "I've been there too a few times" 'Cause you got that James Dean daydream look in your eye And I got that red lip classic thing that you like And when we go crashing down, we come back every time 'Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style You got that long hair, slicked back, white T-shirt And I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt (a tight little skirt) And when we go crashing down, we come back every time 'Cause we never go out of style (we never go), we never go out of style Take me home Just take me home Yeah, just take me home Oh, whoa, oh (Out of style) Oh, you got that James Dean daydream look in your eye And I got that red lip classic thing that you like And when we go crashing down (now we go), we come back every time 'Cause we never go out of style, we never go out of style Writer/s: Ali Payami, Johan Karl Schuster, Martin Max San
Chart History (32 weeks)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nov 15, 2014 | 60 | 66 |
| 7 | Dec 27, 2014 | 76 | 50 |
| 9 | Jan 10, 2015 | 84 | 42 |
| 10 | Jan 17, 2015 | 71 | 55 |
| 11 | Jan 24, 2015 | 72 | 54 |
| 12 | Jan 31, 2015 | 52 | 74 |
| 13 | Feb 7, 2015 | 37 | 89 |
| 14 | Feb 14, 2015 | 29 | 97 |
| 15 | Feb 21, 2015 | 18 | 108 |
| 16 | Feb 28, 2015 | 10 | 116 |
| 17 | Mar 7, 2015 | 8 | 118 |
| 18 | Mar 14, 2015 | 7 | 119 |
| 19 | Mar 21, 2015 | 6 | 120 |
| 20 | Mar 28, 2015 | 7 | 119 |
| 21 | Apr 4, 2015 | 7 | 119 |
| 22 | Apr 11, 2015 | 7 | 119 |
| 23 | Apr 18, 2015 | 7 | 119 |
| 24 | Apr 25, 2015 | 10 | 116 |
| 25 | May 2, 2015 | 12 | 114 |
| 26 | May 9, 2015 | 12 | 114 |
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